www.filigreestreet.com - first site, just opened!

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Hello everyone,



First of all, a big thanks to everyone who ever wrote in this forum, and even bigger thanks to Dimitry in the CS-Cart customer support!



We have worked on this site for a long time, basically started with little to no knowledge, but its now done and I would appreciate your comments / suggestions / anything you could tell us you like/dislike.



Thank you very much in advance!



Michael

Filigreestreet

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Nice light look. But it did take 15 seconds to complete all its transfers (page finished loading). YOu do give enough info while you’re doing all your async loading, but the page isn’t functional until it’s done. Might impact an impatient shopper.

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That’s easy to solve, just install smartoptimizer and enable gzip and with the light look that your shop has it will fly :wink:

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[quote name=‘E.Qi.Librium’]That’s easy to solve, just install smartoptimizer and enable gzip and with the light look that your shop has it will fly ;)[/QUOTE]

E.Qi.Librium - thank you. are these programms part of CS-Cart or do I google and install them?

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They are not part of cs-cart, but there are many posts in this forum about them, here’s one very very usefull, it will teach you everything you need to know:

[url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/showthread.php?t=20534[/url]



For the smartoptimizer you just have to download it, like from here (just an example): www.downloadplex.com/Scripts/PHP/Miscellaneous/smartoptimizer_311062.html

In that page you have instructions on how to install it to, but it’s very easy.

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Hello E.Qi.Librium,



Thank you for the link of SmartOptimizer, today, the official website seems broken…





Lee Li Pop

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For such minimalistic site it takes ages to load even with fast connection.



I do not like fonts, whole site is just too minimalistic …

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Direct Download for SmartOptimizer 1.8

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Darius,thanks for your comments, a bit negative but still appreciated. I would like to change the site’s look more, but my skills are not enough to do some of the changes straight away, so its a long process to get there :wink:



What would you do to make it load faster? I read into the much suggested “SmartOptimizer” but I have my doubts if its that much faster and user friendly.



Are there other ways to make a / my page load faster? I only have these three slideshows which load 100dpi pictures, I guess I can change them to 72dpi, but this won’t really speed the whole thing up too much.

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Smartoptimizer is super easy to set up.



Just download it, upload the folder and change the .htaccess file. Just a note though, I had to remove my .htaccess file within the Smartoptimizer folder.



I’d recommend reading some of Lee Li Pop’s posts on getting more speed out of your site. She has made some great ones.



Brandon

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brandovd,



I took your advice and installed Smartoptimizer … and got a 500 error. Basically, it seems that regardless which of the three .httaccess lines I use, the error appears.

The /cache subdirectory is 777 so allowed for everyone, the /smartoptimizer folder is on my server in the /www directory.



My current .httpaccess file in root is :



DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

RedirectMatch ^/$ /index.php


php_flag zlib.output_compression Off

php_flag output_buffering Off

php_value output_handler NULL



RewriteEngine on
# Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented
# Example:
# Your store url is [url]http://www.yourcompany.com/store/cscart[/url]
# So "RewriteBase" should be:
# RewriteBase /store/cscart
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L,QSA]



you see the three Smartoptimizer lines hached out so I can access my website at all ;-).


Any ideas why this is happening?
And yes, I did delete the .httaccess file within the smartoptimizer folder.
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Read this forum post [url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/showthread.php?t=20598[/url] and follow the instructions LeeLi set out including the htaccess file posted by Struck. I did so and had no issues, it worked first time out.

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ChrisW, thank you. I had trouble finding that particular link to Struck’s page. On the link you posted, I only found this :

“Our .htaccess and SO config.php are exactly as mentioned by Struck in the forum link on SO Lee Li posted. We did add Lee Li’s modeflate suggestion above.”

I couldn’t find that particular thread by Struck on the forum …

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All in all a nice website and the connection is not so slow.



You are doing a good job keep it up.



How many seconds does it take you to load your front page? Product page?



Personally I am moving towards simple web page designs as internet users seem to not read instead they scan and then order or move on…

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[quote name=‘FiligreeStreet’]ChrisW, thank you. I had trouble finding that particular link to Struck’s page. On the link you posted, I only found this :

“Our .htaccess and SO config.php are exactly as mentioned by Struck in the forum link on SO Lee Li posted. We did add Lee Li’s modeflate suggestion above.”

I couldn’t find that particular thread by Struck on the forum …[/QUOTE]



Filigree,



This is the .htaccess file I am currently using with Smartoptimizer version 1.8 and CS-Cart version 2.1.2:


```php DirectoryIndex index.html index.php







SetOutputFilter DEFLATE











ExpiresActive On

ExpiresDefault “access plus 10 years”







RewriteEngine On



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(..(js|css))$ smartoptimizer/?$1





RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f

RewriteRule ^(..(js|css|html?|xml|txt))$ smartoptimizer/?$1







RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f

RewriteRule ^(.*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf|css|js|html?|xml|txt|ico))$ smartoptimizer/?$1







FileETag none







RewriteEngine on

Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented

Example:

Your store url is http://www.yourcompany.com/store/cart

So “RewriteBase” should be:

RewriteBase /store/cart

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.(png|gif|ico|swf|jpe?g|js|css)$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L,QSA]



```



Also, make sure you clear your CS-Cart cache after making a change like this to get everything off on the right foot. I prefer to delete the entire contents within my /var/cache/ and /var/compiled/ folders & let the site fully rebuild itself

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[quote]

Personally I am moving towards simple web page designs as internet users seem to not read instead they scan and then order or move on…

[/quote]

Great advice! People invest far too much in stuff that they might like but that customers could care less about. Simple and to the point will capture more sales than anything else.

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Perfectly, did that just now. Its stable. Not sure if its quicker though …

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Give the Smartoptimizer cache time to build, as more & more pages are visited on your site you will see it speed up.



Especially notice the initial 1st page load time when visiting your site, that is where Smartoptimizer really shines, I can already see a major reduction in load time on your site. :wink:

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[quote name=‘FiligreeStreet’]Perfectly, did that just now. Its stable. Not sure if its quicker though …[/QUOTE]



I can tell you it’s a LOT faster.



I personally like the clean look, I would make a few more borders though just so it’s a bit more clear what’s what.



Also, the yellow letters on the white, a bit more contrast might make it easier to read on some screens.



Good luck!

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Now it flies Filigree, good job :wink: